Category Archives: camping & hiking Painted Rocks Campground is only an hour from Colorado Springs and a total gem of a campground with both reservable and first-come-first-serve campsites. We stayed here on an informal group trip with our Cub Scout den and the campground was a big hit. We’ll be back. Pros: Painted Rocks is convenient while still feeling remote […]  Traci’s note: If you’re here for the crafts, thanks for bearing with me while I get the hiking/camping section of my blog up to date! I’ve got less than half a dozen campgrounds/hikes left to review before they will go back to being occasional posts in otherwise crafty/nursing school endeavors. If you haven’t seen it […]  To read a brief 2016 update post, see this link. Camping at the Sand Dunes is one of my most favorite things in the universe. It is so beautiful and interesting, I’d rather be there than a warm tropical beach. (People generally don’t agree with me on this sentiment, so don’t expect to love it […]  We went to Ridgway State Park after our stay in Mirror Lake (though Mirror Lake added such a long detour to the trip that it would have been just as fast to drive directly to Ridgway). The heavy mosquito level put a damper on the trip–we’re usually spoiled when it comes to bugs here in […]  We visited Mirror Lake last year as part of a longer road trip. Though the setting was beautiful, the rough road to the campground combined with the ATV noise well into the night means this was a one visit campground for us! Pros: The beauty of Mirror Lake and the fun historic ‘living ghost town’ […]  Ellie and I went on a mother-daughter hike today, something we are used to doing but that will come to an end now that Will is off for the summer and Ellie will be off to kindergarten in the fall. It’s crazy to think that the ‘just the two of us’ time that has filled […] |
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